Yea ive been on 2 or 3 tours myself with school. Its pretty cool

Didnt really care for the film, the kings effort wasnt all that impressive during the war compared to the man in the street. But the Oscarsborg scenes were great.

@@martinh1309 well, the significance of the king refusing their demands left enough of an impression on Nygaarsvolds cabinet to say "alright sure, lets bail and set up resistance" cause regjeringa just wanted to keep neutrality and say "ok" to hitler. Also lets not downplay Håkon VII's daily radiospam with speeches of relative importance for the morale of the everyday norwegian. My now-deceased great grandmother used to tell us kids back in the early 2000s about how she would spend every day near the radio listening to the king speak, letting his words soothe the 11 year old girl while she witnessed the occupation. He had much more significance on morale than people realize really

@@muninn9674 that is absolutely true. I just think his escape is a bit overdramatized, and series like Atlantic Crossing attempts to portray norwegian royalty as important diplomats in winning the war, which they wasnt really. Totally agree on everything else

@@martinh1309 oh skjønner haha, well in terms of the war outside our borders the only thing they did of significance that im aware of was allow one final ship to leave from finland to the us with us citizens who had no other means of escape. That and an anti air cannon i believe hahaha

Shes a heavy cruiser not a battle cruiser

​@@Brendan200 yeah, what ever more than a frigate

@@geirhaag shea a bit heavier than a frigate

@@Brendan200 Yeah, a bit, as in 10,000 tons heavier or, so, than your average Frigate. Not much, but yeah.

@@Brendan200 whatever🙄

They shot this scene in actual fortress Oscarsborg and fired the original guns, of course with blank shots. I presume it was still cheaper to do it than to hire a CGI company to produce CGI of such quality.

Another small detail is that the two coastal guns on the other side of the Fjord (from Drøbak i think) that shoot after the first two main cannons. You can distantly see them for around 10 seconds fire once

That _is_ a nice touch. Col. Eriksen ordered the shore batteries to open fire if they saw the island's big guns fire, and so they did. These smaller guns did serious damage to the Blucher and also to the Leipzig, the ship behind her.

you do recall correctly indeed as Blucher was engaged by Birger at 04:30ish, finally being abandoned and sinking at 07:30am.

@@marshalleubanks2454 you sure you arent mixing Leipzig with Lützow? cause GC Leipzig wasnt in Group 5 during Weserübung. though Leipzig was here in norway when it escorted Lützow to norway around early June 1941.

It was decorated actually not medal😅

@@kshitizsrivastava9429 It doesn't matter that much since that's not a precise translation anyway. At least the Norwegian language (bokmål) Wikipedia gives the quote as "Enten blir jeg stilt for krigsrett, eller så blir jeg krigshelt. Fyr!" which is something like "Either I'll be court martialed or I'll become a war hero. Fire!". (Disclaimer: I don't speak Norwegian. This based on my rather rusty Swedish and some googling.)

@@seneca983 it's spot on

Fire!

@@lordhermis8718 Almost. Noone says "fyr" in Norwegian, the term is "ILD!"

Agreed

For sure

Fun fact about the swordfish torpedo bombers that attacked the Bismarck is that since the planes were made of cloth and wires the AA shells that passed right through since they did not have the time to arm and explode

@@jasonharding96 One of the best tid bits of info about the "stringbags." Despite their age, they were still quite effective here and also at Taranto.

I’m not sure you realize what your asking for. Either you asking for a retread of an already made movie called Sink the Bismarck or your asking for a Nazi centric story which by nature of story telling is going to have to paint Nazis as sympathetic characters.

4:32 you know that the people who made this film really cared about history, in those few seconds, you can see in the background the flashes from thetwo 150mm on the other side of the channel firing at blucher

well the saying is "Youth and exuberance are no match for old age and treachery"

Max Manus definitely heavily recommended, production quality is pretty damn good, and it shows the story of the Norwegian resistance movement pretty well

Totally agree on all of these. Also, if it can be found, the movie "Ni liv" (Nine Lives) tells the story of a Norwegian resistance fighter that survives the sinking of his ship off the coast of Norway, and travel across the country by himself to reach the safety of sweden, mid winter without clothes and/or proper winter supplies. A very intense film, though quite old (made in the late 50's)

If I could add one more movie to that list it is The Last Lieutenant (Secondløitnanten) from 1993. A slightly long, but telling story about a retired, old officer with experience going back to active duty, Norwegian unpreparedness, willingness to resist, and minor successes to the disintegration of the defense, from the standpoint of a volunteer unit that sees limited combat.

I was disappointed in how the movie ADD in it's subject matter and lacking in focus to one particular area but Max Manus was awesome.

There is a movie about perhaps norways greatest achievemt during the war, the battle of Narvik, in post production aswell.

Poor Hipper sisters, none of them had a good ending.

It was a special torpedo bunker built below the water line It could not be seen by aerial photos and was hidden That's why they had no idea it was there

I hope I get the chance to visit there someday!

@@VloggingThroughHistory In a video sometime ago, you had a quick mention about all the mines that were laid down on the western beaches of the european continent. May i suggest the movie Land of Mine. It was nominated for an Academy Award a few years ago and takes place in the immediate aftermath of WW2 in Denmark, were german soldiers (boys) were forced to remove the mines. It's a fantastic movie!

​@@VloggingThroughHistory Absolutely recommend going to Oscarsborg, and try to get in on the guided tours there. They also have a youtube channel, with some of the movies in english. kzfaq.info/love/DawQmKi4eS-4Rb4OQ-LJyA. While you're at it, visit Rjukan, site of operation Gunnerside. Where Norwegian resistance fighters, some trained bye SOE in Britain, destroyed the heavy water facility there. Heavy water supposed to be used in Germanys atomic bomb research program. Other places of note nearby is Bagn in Valdres, which as far as I know is the first place where Norwegian forces withstood the German wehrmacht, and was contemplating trying to starting a counter-offensive. That are the most notable WW2 places in eastern Norway I know of. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNd-i696tbq6qo0.html From there it's a not to long a drive over to the west side of the country, if you want to see some nice nature while you're at it. Vøringsfossen, Sognefjorden, Trollstigen are good suggestions. Other than that, the other notable sites I know of are Namsos and Narvik, in northern Norway. The last one there, site of a battle including several British and German ships, of which atleast one wreck you can visit now. www.bjerkvikhistorie.no/Jagere/Thiele.htm www.google.no/maps/place/Georg+Thiele/@68.4083435,17.8095675,411m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x45dbb9c125908fe7:0x8c58cb6b9cb9ab5b!8m2!3d68.4083415!4d17.8117562 Also, in the Narvik area; Norwegian, Polish, French and British forces were starting to push back, until they suddenly didn't any more..... Anyways, just ask if you need help planning a trip, I have some contacts which may be helpful.

@@VloggingThroughHistory you should take a visit to Narvik aswell, the site of where Hitler lost his first land battle i believe.

@Croatian_gamer [SGE007] He might have ment "ILD!" which is what he Colonel was shouting for them to fire. "Ild" means fire in norwegian.

@@kingvvk Well it's "eld" in Swedish so...

@@kingvvk ELD is the Swedish word for for fire while it’s Ild in Norwegian.

Thats warming to hear, kjære nordiske nabo. Skål!

@@odinulveson9101 Skål. 🍻

Actually a coastal guard ship had been strafed and sunk at the very southern part of the Oslofjord. M/S Pol III was hit and the commander lethally wounded around midnight, but had managed to send alarm flares before. Norway was at war after this act.

Not a battleship its a heavy cruiser

I am a Norwegian and still enjoyed The King`s Speech more than The King`s Choice". Great movie. I fell asleep during The King`s Choice , which except for the sinking of Blucher scene, is a bit slow and boring

Norways Death Star moment

@Kabuki Kitsune Combined with the fact that Koppås opened fire from the opposite side as well.

They had also lost the fleet commander who had been killed when the command tower on the Blucher was hit by a direct shot from the shore guns.

April 9th was a fantastic film.

@@johnthegreat97 I thought so. I appreciated the tone, no dramatics and attention to realism.

How long is the movie? 5 minutes? Just joking

@@lenzschwarze Hehe, yeah. Once the fighting starts the movie almost go into realtime. It means the combat actually feels right to a greater degree than most movies.

That's a good movie

If I remember correctly the guns made to replace the main battery also got sent to Norway. One of the 38 cm guns can still be found in Kristiansand,(the same type as on Bismark and Tirpitz, just in single turret no double). Really gives an idea of how big those ships would have to be to carry them.

@@martinwew And four 40,6 cm guns were placed at Trondenes, Harstad. I believe there are or were 3 more at Engeløya in Nordland. These two batteries overlapped protecting the approach to Narvik. You can still visit "The Adolph Gun" at Trondenes, even though it's inside an active military base (unless...recent events...suspended the guided tours).

Check out another good Norwegian war movie: Max Manus. Hes a resistant war hero. The more famous thing he did was to jump out of a hopstial in order to not get caught by the germans.

The other guns from across the ford also were able to continue to fire into the Blucher as it passed the fortress Killing the fleet Admiral and command crew And preventing the flagship from deploying any invasion forces

German paratroopers had also been deployed to speed up the taking of the capital However the stalling of the sea borne invasion meant the paratroopers Had no reinforcement or resupplying.

Highly recommend watching it!

Actually, the anchor is in Drøbak. Right next to the bust of Birger Eriksen.

It's not really true that Norway didn't suffer any casualties. Several civilians were caught in the crossfire when the batteries on land started exchanging fire with the other German ships. But it wasn't nearly as bad as the German losses, because of how overloaded Blücher was...

Also extremely chilling to a Dane - by the way this movie is incredibly easy to understand for us down south haha

(Commented in the start of the videos)

You can see the kopas battery firing at 4:32

Somebody mentioned that yesterday. Crazy. Love Tormund!

@@VloggingThroughHistory Acting runs in the family, haha. Hey, maybe a stupid idea...but a reaction of the film entire on your channel? :D Haven't found anyone else that's done it yet.